Michaelle Haughian

Ausma with her daughter, Christine.

Antique ice auger on the Jones' homestead, Lake Isle, Alberta. 2011.

Jones homestead in Lake Isle, Alberta. Circa 1909.

Frank, Fred, and Annie Cheple.

News clipping from the Imanta Independence Day celebration of 1968, with Dr. Anna Rudovics' comments.

Textile on construction paper; school project created by Biruta Friemanis' grandson.

Students continued their education in German refugee camps.

Ilda Lubane photo

Knitted socks created by ethnic Latvian weaver Biruta Friemanis of Calgary, Alberta. Photo taken November, 2011.

Eddie Jones, Royal Canadian Navy, circa 1940.

Cynthia Jones shows an old bird's nest in an antique bowl that was left among the ruins of original farm buildings. Lake Isle, Alberta.

Peter Green driving his first car, a 1940 "Nash", in 1948, Edmonton, Alberta.

Passport detail of Ulderis Delveris, displaced ethnic Latvian.

Linis family portrait taken in 1934, Latvia. Victor, Alexander, Vera, and Nina "Linda" (later Celmainis).

Edmonton area Latvian drama club/theatre group en route to Calgary, Alberta. Red Deer, Alberta, 1953. Left to right: Ludmilla Cinats, Lilija Purickis (later Jurikass), Valija Mierkalns, Juris Cinats, unknown gentleman, Herta Vanags.

Crocheted baby blanket using traditional Latvian knitting techniques.

Long-time friends Harry and Ilona Skrastins, Mr. Putnins, Mrs. Lusis, and Mrs. Heinbergs in the home of Peter and Ilga Green in 1996.

Eddie Jones departed his Lake Isle home for the war effort in 1940. Mother Olga Jones would take the skiff back across the lake after bidding her son goodbye.

Wedding portrait of Biruta Tumshevic and Eduards Friemanis, Edmonton, Alberta, 1948.

The hands of Roland Benkis and daughter Laura Benkis, adorned in kind with Latvian jewelry. Roland wears the traditional Namejs ring and Laura wears a Latvian charm ring often given as an engagement ring.

>Nelda and Juris Kononova attending Jani at Lake Isle, Alberta in 2010.

wood carving by renowned craftsman Arnold Mikelsons, ethnic Latvian; owned by daughter Anita Clark nee Mikelsons

Voldemars Bruzis in Lubeck, Germany.

Lake Isle settlers, Alberta, circa 1905.

Party at Lake Isle.